Emulsion reactions

Ultrasound is known to generate extremely fine emulsions from mixtures of immiscible liquids. Ultrasonic homogenisation has been used for many years in the food industry for the production of tomato sauce, mayormaise and other similar blended items. In chemistry such extremely fine emulsions provide enormous interfacial contact areas between immiscible liquids and thus the potential for greater reaction between the phases. This can be particularly beneficial in phase transfer catalysis. 

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Copolymerizations can also be carried out in an emulsion reaction. For example, nitrile rubber (NBR) can be made from the emulsion polymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene ... 

Mixing in Emulsion-Reaction Types of Liquid-Liquid Processes... 

Most emulsion polymerizations are free-radical reactions. The main difference from alternative free-radical polymerizations, such as those in bulk, solution, and suspension systems, is that the propagating macroradicals in emulsion reactions are isolated from each other. Encounters between macroradicals are hindered as a consequence, and termination reactions are less frequent than in comparable systems in which the reaction mixture is not subdivided. Emulsion polymerizations thus often yield high-molccular-wcight products at fast rates when suspension or bulk reactions of the same monomers are inefficient. 

Emulsion polymerizations vary greatly, and no single reaction mechanism accounts for the behavior of all the important systems. The kinelies and meehanism of emulsion polymerizations are reviewed in detail in Ref. [4]. It is important to note that the nature of the produets made by emulsion reactions are highly dependent... 

Emulsion polymerizations were dc.scribcd in Chapter 8. These reactions yield high-molecular-weight products at fast reaction rates when the corresponding suspension, bulk, or solution free-radical polymerizations are inefficient, because both Rp and DP can be changed in parallel by altering the soap concentration in emulsion reactions. Thermal control and mixing are relatively easy, in common... 

Experimce has shown that each monomer has its own specific features hi emulsion polymerization and requires a specific techncdogy. To a certain extent this is also true of other components in the reaction sy em, e.g., the emulsifier and the initiator. Attempts to fit various emulsion reaction systems into one physicochemical model or theoretical scheme have therefore failed. 

Acrylates 8, 14, and 17 were also copolymerized with n-hexyl methacrylate or n-butyl acrylate in emulsion reactions (sodium lauryl sulfate, K2S20a, 60°C) as were chain-extended acrylates 10, 13, 16 and 19. The copolymers of 17 and 19 were low molecular weight materials again due to easy chain transfer. The bulk copolymerization of 19 with n-hexyl methacrylate gave reasonably high molecular weights.1 Some solution copolymerizations were also carried out. Representative results are summarized in Table 2. 

Nonionic emulsifier (ATLOX 8916 TF) was a product of ICI Americas Inc. 1-Dodecanethiol (Aldrich) was used as the chain transfer agent. Double distilled and deoxygenated water was used throughout the emulsion reactions. 

Manbrane volume fraction of the emulsion Fractional utilization of emulsion Reaction equilibrium constant, M ... 

Haixia W., Haifeng S., Agnes C.C., and John H.X. Microencapsulation of vitamin C by interfacial/ emulsion reaction Characterization of release properties of microcapsules. J Control. Release 152(1) (2011) e78-e79. 

It was demonstrated that particle size and concentration are parameters to which this technique is sensitive. Clearly, with suitable calibration techniques these techniques can be used in industrial reactors and processes as an example, of the differences found a batch reaction, Figure 24 shows the initial and final spectra obtained through a seeded polystyrene emulsion reaction. Note the dramatic changes in the reflectance spectra. 

A numerical technique that has become very popular in the control field for optimization of dynamic problems is the IDP (iterative dynamic programming) technique. For application of the IDP procedure, the dynamic trajectory is divided first into NS piecewise constant discrete trajectories. Then, the Bellman s theory of dynamic programming [175] is used to divide the optimization problem into NS smaller optimization problems, which are solved iteratively backwards from the desired target values to the initial conditions. Both SQP and RSA can be used for optimization of the NS smaller optimization problems. IDP has been used for computation of optimum solutions in different problems for different purposes. For example, it was used to minimize energy consumption and byproduct formation in poly(ethylene terephthalate) processes [ 176]. It was also used to develop optimum feed rate policies for the simultaneous control of copolymer composition and MWDs in emulsion reactions [36, 37]. 

A rapid and low cost method was developed for direct analysis of residual monomer concentration of acrylamide from inverse-emulsion reactions. Inverse-emulsion polymerisations involve the dispersion of a water-soluble monomer in aqueous solution in a continuous organic phase. The addition of a low-medium hydrophilic-lyophilic balance steric stabiliser and continuous agitation is required to maintain emulsification. 19 refs. 

The CCT reaction has attained commercial utility as it is ideal for synthesizing low molecular weight polymers with terminal imsaturation. The resnltant macromonomers can be used as either chain transfer agents (useful for making block structures) or polymerizable monomers, useful in the synthesis of comb- and star-type molecules. The reaction is tolerant of many frmctionalities and of water, making it amenable to emulsion reactions. 

Transfer to cloud and wake) = (Reaction in cloud cloud and wake) -l- (Transfer to emulsion) (Transfer to emulsion) = (Reaction in emulsion)... 

The theory behind the emulsion reaction is discussed in Chapter 9. A generic commercial process is outlined in Figure 12.8. The reactors are usually stainless or glass-lined steel tanks, similar to those used for suspension polymerization. In contrast to suspension polymerization, however, a proper emulsion is thermodynamically stable (due... 

PFCAs are a subset of perfluorinated acids which consist of a non-polar perfluorinated alkyl chain and a polar carboxylic acid end group. Based upon their combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties they are often used as surfactants in emulsion reactions, or as reactants to make low-molecular weight perfluorinated products. Historically the C8 PFCA (perfluorooctanoic acid—... 

Polymeric carbons can be prepared in different shapes. As shown in Figure 7.26, carbon nanospheres (CNS) with an average diameter of about 50 nm can be prepared by emulsion reaction, coating, heat treatment, and washing. If there is no coating process, the PAN nanoparticles will aggregate and cross-link during the heat-treatment [15]. The prepared CNS has a unique nanostructure and potentially can achieve excellent rate capability [15]. 

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